Hi, and welcome to the *World* Wide Web. Here in the UK, electronic and electrical engineering are seperately taught and studied fields. I am aware that this is different to how things are done in some parts of the world; on the other other hand, Sir, may I suggest that you are aware of very little at all.
If you're serious about producing something that has the potential to be mass market, I suggest you bring some partners on board. For product development, find an electronic engineer that can cope with the hardware side; and also someone that can speak marketese and has experience in accessing the kind of markets you're talking about.
It's nice and all to think you can be the next Richard Branson by doing it all yourself, but in reality very few businesses go from zero to IPO with a single guy pulling all the strings.
Humans have an incredibly complex grammar textbook they can refer to; it's called your brain. If something makes perfect sense and feels right, then it's grammatical. Really, I do get bored with injunctions to not at the end of a sentence a preposition put. Or to strongly abhor splitting an infinitive. Really, just because you can't do it in Latin doesn't mean you shouldn't do it in English.
Most people in the West want it too. Most people I know are quite happy with web filtering (*I* don't go to those kinds of websites, after all, so it doesn't affect me). Even if they can understand the potential for abuse that goes with that, they also blindly trust "them" to just, well, behave themselves. And given what China's been through in the 20th century, I can't say I blame anyone for wanting to keep their head down and in turn rationalising it to themselves.
Or possibly, there's just making the content unavailable until copyright expires? Seriously, they don't have any law behind what they do, so they have to tread relatively carefully in order to not cause themselves bigger problems than not being able to archive a small number of websites.
Not likely, not impossible. Google works because their service involves people coming to them because they want something. Now, quite often we just want an explanation of the latest meme (WTF is this yo dawg shit?), but other times we want to find, say, a hotel, or a new printer. Intelligently targeted advertising in that situation *is* what the user wants, so no surprise that they are successful.
It's called realpolitik. While I and many others would love to ostracise China until they choose to reform, let's consider what happened last time we tried it on Germany in 1919. A billion angry, resourceful, intelligent people is *not* a country I want to go to war with, no matter how many of their own people they massacre. Their own citizens are slowly starting to figure out that it's not quite right; things will change eventually.
If the information was that hot, it would be an irrelevance getting it taken down. Say you *did* publish names and addresses of every field agent the CIA has. It doesn't really matter whether you redact the list or not: it is out there and you need to burn your bridges, regardless.
I think the reason it is simplistic is because the issue is simplistic: run an online service paid for by advertising to your users and you are not likely to be profitable, end of story.
This is usually a deliberate decision, not moronism. Here in Edinburgh, where we're getting a multi-zillion pound tram system built (slowly), all the lights have been altered to screw up traffic flows. When the trams go live, they will be getting switched back to normal, and everyone will be astonished by the huge difference the trams made. It's not paranoia if they really *are* out to get you.
This isn't about rights, it's about your contractual position with your ISP. Does your contract allow them to interfere with the packets you receive from the network? Maybe, maybe not. Reserving the ability to shoot BT repairmen on sight will not really do much for you here, either way.
That is possibly the best website ever. Pricey, but if it really is unlimited...maybe. Whenever this comes up, I always shout out my own ISP, Net Central, who aren't IWF shills and have great tech support, and don't bother me, ever. £23.49 for a maxed out connection, no fixed limits but they do reserve the right to dial you back if you're hurting other people.
Many people didn't vote for Labour MPs. That doesn't mean they didn't win the election.
The West Lothian question is a problem, of course, and of course Labour are going to abuse their Scottish majority as long as they can get away with it. I expect a protocol of Scottish MPs sitting out English votes to arise eventually, but it will take time.
Arrow guarantees that no representational system will be ideal; some group is always going to get the shaft. We have it worse at the moment due to recent history, but I don't think overall our system is a bad one (Italy much?). I hope that one effect of recent history will be to discourage the electorate from electing such long lived governments; two governments (effectively) since 1979 is a dangerous state of affairs. Governments should live in fear of the electorate - it's pretty obvious what happens when they lose that fear.
I think/. is more than aware what they mean. Just because you aren't forking out to use these web applications, doesn't mean that there isn't a cost. Software as a service costs real money to host, and you should be asking where the money is, and why.
Heh. My dad managed to keep one running through the mid 90s. We called it Hugo, and it even once managed to tow a caravan. It was great as a kid, because you often got to stop in interesting places while the AA brought out various bits and pieces to make it go again (including, on one mermorable occasion, a complete new engine).
I do get sick of the English whining about being run by Scots. Maybe if they hadn't had such a hard-on for Thatcher and Major, they would have realised that all the experienced Labour politicians were Scottish, and so Scottish domination of the next Labour government was pretty much guaranteed.
Parent is correct. I can't even get an IP lease without running my provided OS. In answer to your question, financial services. Our IT and security policies are based off a standard called ITEC, which is pretty comprehensive, if slow to catch up with reality. The main reason for complying with ITEC instead of applying some common sense, is instituitional ass-covering - nobody can be blamed for following ITEC to the letter.
USB drives are locked down. If I want to plug something in, I fill out a form and request a one-time authorisation number for the DLP sentinel. The form is then returned to you with a note informing you it's been denied, some time after it becomes moot. Seriously, these guys are *artists*.
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Hi, and welcome to the *World* Wide Web. Here in the UK, electronic and electrical engineering are seperately taught and studied fields. I am aware that this is different to how things are done in some parts of the world; on the other other hand, Sir, may I suggest that you are aware of very little at all.
It's nice and all to think you can be the next Richard Branson by doing it all yourself, but in reality very few businesses go from zero to IPO with a single guy pulling all the strings.
Humans have an incredibly complex grammar textbook they can refer to; it's called your brain. If something makes perfect sense and feels right, then it's grammatical. Really, I do get bored with injunctions to not at the end of a sentence a preposition put. Or to strongly abhor splitting an infinitive. Really, just because you can't do it in Latin doesn't mean you shouldn't do it in English.
And God help you if you had forgotten to disable the screensaver :)
Yo dawg, I put an injoke in your injoke so you can...aww screw it. Yo momma fat.
Most people in the West want it too. Most people I know are quite happy with web filtering (*I* don't go to those kinds of websites, after all, so it doesn't affect me). Even if they can understand the potential for abuse that goes with that, they also blindly trust "them" to just, well, behave themselves. And given what China's been through in the 20th century, I can't say I blame anyone for wanting to keep their head down and in turn rationalising it to themselves.
Or possibly, there's just making the content unavailable until copyright expires? Seriously, they don't have any law behind what they do, so they have to tread relatively carefully in order to not cause themselves bigger problems than not being able to archive a small number of websites.
Not likely, not impossible. Google works because their service involves people coming to them because they want something. Now, quite often we just want an explanation of the latest meme (WTF is this yo dawg shit?), but other times we want to find, say, a hotel, or a new printer. Intelligently targeted advertising in that situation *is* what the user wants, so no surprise that they are successful.
It's called realpolitik. While I and many others would love to ostracise China until they choose to reform, let's consider what happened last time we tried it on Germany in 1919. A billion angry, resourceful, intelligent people is *not* a country I want to go to war with, no matter how many of their own people they massacre. Their own citizens are slowly starting to figure out that it's not quite right; things will change eventually.
If the information was that hot, it would be an irrelevance getting it taken down. Say you *did* publish names and addresses of every field agent the CIA has. It doesn't really matter whether you redact the list or not: it is out there and you need to burn your bridges, regardless.
I think the reason it is simplistic is because the issue is simplistic: run an online service paid for by advertising to your users and you are not likely to be profitable, end of story.
This is usually a deliberate decision, not moronism. Here in Edinburgh, where we're getting a multi-zillion pound tram system built (slowly), all the lights have been altered to screw up traffic flows. When the trams go live, they will be getting switched back to normal, and everyone will be astonished by the huge difference the trams made. It's not paranoia if they really *are* out to get you.
Idiot. You're probably the same guy that pretends to be Bruce Perens.
This isn't about rights, it's about your contractual position with your ISP. Does your contract allow them to interfere with the packets you receive from the network? Maybe, maybe not. Reserving the ability to shoot BT repairmen on sight will not really do much for you here, either way.
That is possibly the best website ever. Pricey, but if it really is unlimited...maybe. Whenever this comes up, I always shout out my own ISP, Net Central, who aren't IWF shills and have great tech support, and don't bother me, ever. £23.49 for a maxed out connection, no fixed limits but they do reserve the right to dial you back if you're hurting other people.
What do guns have to do with my network connection? Should I camp out by my firewall and shoot dropped packets, the varmints?
The West Lothian question is a problem, of course, and of course Labour are going to abuse their Scottish majority as long as they can get away with it. I expect a protocol of Scottish MPs sitting out English votes to arise eventually, but it will take time.
Arrow guarantees that no representational system will be ideal; some group is always going to get the shaft. We have it worse at the moment due to recent history, but I don't think overall our system is a bad one (Italy much?). I hope that one effect of recent history will be to discourage the electorate from electing such long lived governments; two governments (effectively) since 1979 is a dangerous state of affairs. Governments should live in fear of the electorate - it's pretty obvious what happens when they lose that fear.
I think /. is more than aware what they mean. Just because you aren't forking out to use these web applications, doesn't mean that there isn't a cost. Software as a service costs real money to host, and you should be asking where the money is, and why.
Heh. My dad managed to keep one running through the mid 90s. We called it Hugo, and it even once managed to tow a caravan. It was great as a kid, because you often got to stop in interesting places while the AA brought out various bits and pieces to make it go again (including, on one mermorable occasion, a complete new engine).
I do get sick of the English whining about being run by Scots. Maybe if they hadn't had such a hard-on for Thatcher and Major, they would have realised that all the experienced Labour politicians were Scottish, and so Scottish domination of the next Labour government was pretty much guaranteed.
Learn it, love it.
UK here, pornblocked. Is it the same 404 you get for main-hosting.com/sajdbfasdhbfjasbdfbsa?
Parent is correct. I can't even get an IP lease without running my provided OS. In answer to your question, financial services. Our IT and security policies are based off a standard called ITEC, which is pretty comprehensive, if slow to catch up with reality. The main reason for complying with ITEC instead of applying some common sense, is instituitional ass-covering - nobody can be blamed for following ITEC to the letter.
I know I shouldn't, but this one is too good to pass up. Look out, it's a trap.
USB drives are locked down. If I want to plug something in, I fill out a form and request a one-time authorisation number for the DLP sentinel. The form is then returned to you with a note informing you it's been denied, some time after it becomes moot. Seriously, these guys are *artists*.